He's an England player and he needs to stop it. I expect South American players to do that sort thing.... they are very good at cheating and seem almost to take a perverse pride in it... England players should be better than that imo, and Alli isn't atm. Hopefully by the summer he will have corrected this fault and no one will be happier than me to see it

Great outpourings of affection on Talk Sport over the last 24 hours, clearly a much loved guy around football.

An ex soldier rang one of the shows today and told his story about when he became homeless shortly after leaving the army. One evening he was sat on his piece of cardboard somewhere in London and who should approach him but Ray Wilkins. He sat down with him for half an hour and just chatted. At the end of that time he took him off for coffee, then when they had finished Ray Wilkins gave him 20 quid for a hot meal, and said go and find somewhere warm for the night. That night he found a shelter on Wilkins advice and by some coincidence there was a guy at the shelter specifically tasked with resolving issues for ex servicemen. As a result of that meeting the guy turned his life around, got himself a job and a home and is about to get married.

Sounds as though Wilkins was a pretty generously hearted soul outside aswell as inside football.